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title: Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles — how Mova does on the tests · Everyday
description: Lesson 218 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 10 of 19 tests right, exam 3 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

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**Tests:** 10 of 19 right · **Exam:** 3 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 19 of 23 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 218 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Kids on a high balcony want to drop a water balloon onto the street. What is true?

- **1.** It could seriously hurt someone below — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** It will slow down before landing — no support
- **3.** Water balloons are always harmless, they just splash — no support
- **4.** It is fine if they shout first — **← Mova's choice** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 111, line 4: «For example, a boy in Ohio drops a glass: he stands still, tells his little sister and the dog to stay out, puts shoes on and calls his dad before anyone walks…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «call» (+5); the same doer «boy» (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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A girl in Belfast carries six plates and a bowl at once and drops them. What would have worked better?

- **1.** Carrying a few plates at a time — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Holding them with one hand — score 6
- **3.** Carrying them faster — score 4
- **4.** Asking someone to open the door — score -1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 111, line 9: «Carrying a few plates at a time is safer than carrying a big pile that can slip and break.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «carry» (+2); it fills the role the question asks for (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Which is the safe way to walk across a classroom with scissors?

- **1.** Spinning them on a finger — no support
- **2.** Closed, with the points down — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **3.** Points up, near your face — no support
- **4.** Open, pointing forward so people see them — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 218, line 10: «Carry scissors closed with the points down, and pass them handle first.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «close» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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A boy in Florida finds a needle on the beach. What should he do?

- **1.** Throw it into the sea — score 7
- **2.** Leave it and tell an adult at once — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9
- **3.** Pick it up with his fingers carefully — score 9
- **4.** Bury it in the sand — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 2 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 213, line 6: «A boy in New York felt sad for months after his best friend moved away but told nobody; he stopped playing football and eating well, until his teacher noticed…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «tell» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Why is it dangerous if a small child swallows a button battery?

- **1.** It passes through and does no harm — no support
- **2.** It can burn through the throat within about two hours — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** It only causes a small tummy ache — score 4
- **4.** It makes the child feel full — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 218, line 3: «A button battery swallowed by a small child can burn through the throat within about two hours, so it means going to hospital at once.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+4); the same action «burn» (+2); the same place «throat» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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Your cousin has a box of very strong magnets. Which of these should be kept well away from them?

- **1.** Paper photos — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **2.** Bank cards — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Wooden spoons — score 3
- **4.** Plastic cups — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 31, line 3: «Germs are a hidden danger. You cannot see the bacteria on raw chicken, but they can make you ill, so you wash your hands with soap and keep raw meat away from…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same action «keep» (+2). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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A drink bottle on a garden shed shelf is half full of blue liquid. What is the safest thought?

- **1.** It might be a chemical, so leave it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **2.** Pour it into a cup and taste it — score 4
- **3.** It is fine if it smells sweet — no support
- **4.** It is probably just a sports drink someone forgot — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 218, line 4: «Medicines are medicine, not candy, and an unknown liquid in an old drink bottle may be a chemical; you never drink it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «chemical» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why should children not take adult medicine on their own?

- **1.** Medicine always tastes bad for children — **← Mova's choice** · score 7
- **2.** Adult medicine never works on children — score 5
- **3.** Children's doses are different and adult medicine can harm them — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Children are not ill often enough — score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 33, line 10: «Some medicines look and taste like sweets, but they are not sweets.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «medicines» (+4); the same action «taste» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Why is it wiser to call medicine "medicine" around little children?

- **1.** So they do not think it is a treat and look for more — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** So it tastes better to them — score 7
- **3.** Because candy is more expensive — no support
- **4.** So they learn a long word — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 114, line 10: «Medicine should always be called medicine, not candy or sweets, so children do not look for more.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «children» (+4); the same action «look» (+3); the same circumstance (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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clearin up, can i carry all 10 plates at once

- **1.** Yes, stack them up high — no support
- **2.** Carry a few at a time — **✓ the right answer** · score 1
- **3.** Carry them on your head — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Yes, if you run really fast — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 111, line 2: «Many chores have a small safety reason inside them: carry a few plates, not a tower; pick up socks and cords before vacuuming; water a plant only when its soil…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «few plates» (+3); the same action «carry» (+2); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, scored 1. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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parcel came, gonna open it with dads craft knife

- **1.** Yes, use it quickly — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** Let a grown-up open it, the blade slips — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Yes, cut towards you so you can see it — score 3
- **4.** Use dad's razor instead — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 105, line 7: «Ask a grown-up before using a big knife, cut on a chopping board, curl your fingers in and cut away from your body.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «big knife» (+3); the same action «use» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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my bank card was next to the fridge magnets and dont work now, coincidence?

- **1.** The fridge is too loud — no support
- **2.** Strong magnets can wipe the strips on bank cards — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **3.** Cards break in the cold — no support
- **4.** Magnets have no effect on cards — score 1

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 113, line 17: «Strong magnets can wipe the strips on bank cards and damage some electronics.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «strips» (+3); the same action «wipe» (+2); the same place «bank cards» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t12/)

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### Test 13 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t13}

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theres a sports bottle in the garage with clear stuff, its water right?

- **1.** Smell it and sip — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Drink it if you're thirsty — no support
- **3.** Don't drink it, people keep chemicals in old bottles — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, clear means water — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t13/)

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### Test 14 · ★ · right ✓ {#t14}

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baby's playing with a tiny battery from the remote

- **1.** Let him, it's not charged so it can't do anything — no support
- **2.** Wait and see if he swallows it — no support
- **3.** Take it away and tell an adult right now — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **4.** Give him a toy instead and leave it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 113, line 4: «For example, a boy in Florida sees his baby sister holding the little round battery from the TV remote; he takes it away, tells his mum at once, and she checks…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take away» (+5); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t14/)

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### Test 15 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t15}

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Why should chairs never be pushed near an open window or a balcony rail?

- **1.** Chairs wear out the floor — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It blocks the view — no support
- **3.** Small children climb them and can fall — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The chairs get wet when it rains through the window — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t15/)

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### Test 16 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t16}

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found an old drink bottle in the shed with blue stuff in it

- **1.** Pour it on the plants — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Taste a drop to check — no support
- **3.** Take it to school — no support
- **4.** Don't drink or sniff it, tell an adult — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t16/)

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### Test 17 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t17}

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did u hear a toddler swallowed one of those little round batteries and it burnt a hole in her throat? real lesson?

- **1.** Give the child milk and let them sleep — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** A swallowed button battery is a hospital emergency at once — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Wait to see if it comes out by itself — no support
- **4.** Only big batteries are dangerous — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t17/)

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### Test 18 · ★ · right ✓ {#t18}

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apparently a kid dropped a water balloon off the 10th floor balcony and it knocked a man out cold. should u try it from the 2nd floor?

- **1.** Yes, water balloons are soft — no support
- **2.** No, never drop anything from a balcony — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** Yes, if you shout a warning first — no support
- **4.** Yes, the 2nd floor is low enough to be totally safe — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 218, line 8: «Never throw or drop anything from a balcony, because a falling object can seriously hurt someone below.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «anything» (+3); the same action «drop» (+2); the same place «balcony» (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t18/)

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### Test 19 · ★ · right ✓ {#t19}

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my cousin said her friend drank from an old lemonade bottle in the shed and it was weedkiller and she nearly died. real lesson?

- **1.** Never drink from a bottle you're not sure of — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** Smell it first to check — no support
- **3.** Old bottles always hold water — no support
- **4.** Only drink lemonade from the shed if it's still fizzy — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 218, line 18: «People sometimes keep chemicals in old drink bottles, so you never drink from a bottle you are not sure of.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «bottle» (+3); the same property (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/t19/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1}

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Identify the proper manner in which scissors are carried and passed.

- **1.** Thrown gently to the recipient — no support
- **2.** Carried open in a pocket — no support
- **3.** Closed, points downward, and passed handle first — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** Open, points forward, and passed to the other blade first — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 112, line 8: «Scissors are carried closed and pointing down and passed handle first.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same property (+3); the same thing acted on «handle» (+2); the same action «pass» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a swallowed button battery?

- **1.** It is dangerous only if bitten — score 7
- **2.** It may burn through the throat within about two hours and is an emergency — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13
- **3.** It passes harmlessly in nearly all cases — score 5
- **4.** It requires attention only the next day — score 7

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 13, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 218, line 3: «A button battery swallowed by a small child can burn through the throat within about two hours, so it means going to hospital at once.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «burn» (+5); it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «button battery» (+2); the same place «throat» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with established practice upon finding a used needle outside.

- **1.** It is not touched, and an adult is informed — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **2.** It is carried home to show a parent — score 3
- **3.** It is collected with care and placed in the nearest bin — no support
- **4.** It is pushed aside with a shoe — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 8, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 112, line 12: «A used needle found outside must never be touched, because it can carry dangerous infections.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «touch» (+5); the same thing acted on «used needle» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the principal reason for which medicine is never described to children as sweets.

- **1.** Medicine tastes considerably better when it is so described — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Medicine and sweets contain the same ingredients — no support
- **3.** It is a description required by law — no support
- **4.** Children may consume it believing it to be sweets — **✓ the right answer** · score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 33, line 10: «Some medicines look and taste like sweets, but they are not sweets.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «taste» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/e4/)

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